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16-letter words containing w, a, s

  • acknowledgements — Plural form of acknowledgement.
  • american cowslip — shooting star (def 2).
  • ancestor worship — (in certain societies) the veneration of ancestors whose spirits are frequently held to possess the power to influence the affairs of the living.
  • answer-back code — a unique code that identifies the telex machine to which a message is sent
  • arthur wellesley1st Duke of (Arthur Wellesley"the Iron Duke") 1769–1852, British general and statesman, born in Ireland: prime minister 1828–30.
  • as far as i know — You can use far in expressions like 'as far as I know' and 'so far as I remember' to indicate that you are not absolutely sure of the statement you are about to make or have just made, and you may be wrong.
  • as is one's wont — If someone does a particular thing as is their wont, they do that thing often or regularly.
  • asalam-wa-leikum — a salutation used in India
  • at daggers drawn — If you say that two people are at daggers drawn, you mean they are having an argument and are still very angry with each other.
  • atwood's machine — a device consisting of two unequal masses connected by a string passed over a pulley, used to illustrate the laws of motion.
  • australian crawl — a stroke in which the feet are kicked like paddles while the arms reach forward and pull back through the water
  • away from sb/sth — If something is away from a person or place, it is at a distance from that person or place.
  • baron tweedsmuir — the title of Scottish novelist John Buchan
  • be one's own man — to be independent or free
  • blow one's stack — to lose one's temper; fly into a rage
  • boatswain's mate — a job classification in the US navy
  • boatswain's pipe — a whistle used formerly to give orders on board ship
  • bonded warehouse — a warehouse in which dutiable goods are deposited until duty is paid or the goods are cleared for export
  • bowman's capsule — a membranous, double-walled capsule surrounding a glomerulus of a nephron.
  • brake horsepower — the rate at which an engine does work, expressed in horsepower. It is measured by the resistance of an applied brake
  • brave west winds — the strong west and west-northwest winds blowing between latitudes 40° S and 60° S.
  • break one's word — to fail to keep one's promise
  • brown-eyed susan — a composite plant, Rudbeckia triloba, of the southeastern U.S., having a single flower with yellow rays darkening to an orange orbrown at the base and a brownish-black disk.
  • bundled software — software sold as part of a package with computers or other hardware or software
  • capsule wardrobe — a collection of clothes and accessories that includes only items considered essential
  • catch a few zeds — to have a nap
  • cayenne software — (company)   The company formed when CADRE merged with Bachman Information Systems in July 1996.
  • chatsworth house — a mansion near Bakewell in Derbyshire: seat of the Dukes of Devonshire; built (1687–1707) in the classical style
  • chemical weapons — toxic chemicals used as weapons
  • chest of drawers — A chest of drawers is a low, flat piece of furniture with drawers in which you keep clothes and other things.
  • chinese snowball — a Chinese shrub, Viburnum macrocephalum, of the honeysuckle family, having scurfy, hairy twigs, hairy leaves, and white flowers in large, showy, globelike clusters.
  • chinese windlass — differential windlass
  • chinese wisteria — a high-climbing Chinese vine, Wisteria sinensis, of the legume family, having hanging clusters of fragrant, bluish-violet flowers and long, velvety pods.
  • chipping sparrow — a common North American sparrow, Spizella passerina, having brown-and-grey plumage and a white eye stripe
  • clay-with-flints — a deposit of stiff clay containing unworn whole flints in the S England
  • compression wave — a shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted.
  • conflict of laws — dissimilarity or discrepancy between the laws of different legal orders, such as states or nations, with regard to the applicable legal rules and principles in a matter that each legal order wishes to regulate.
  • conservation law — any law stating that some quantity or property remains constant during and after an interaction or process, as conservation of charge or conservation of linear momentum.
  • conservative jew — a Jew who adheres for the most part to the principles and practices of traditional Judaism with the reservation that, taking into account contemporary conditions, certain modifications or rejections are permissible.
  • continuous waves — radio waves generated as a continuous train of oscillations having a constant frequency and amplitude
  • counselor-at-law — a lawyer, esp one who conducts cases in court; attorney
  • cowichan sweater — a heavy sweater of grey, unbleached wool with distinctive designs that were originally black-and-white but are now sometimes coloured: knitted originally by Cowichan Indians in British Columbia
  • crossbow archery — the sport of shooting with a crossbow
  • curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
  • cut a wide swath — to make an ostentatious display or forceful impression
  • dagwood sandwich — a thick sandwich filled with a variety of meats, cheeses, dressings, and condiments.
  • darwin's finches — the finches of the subfamily Geospizinae of the Galapagos Islands, showing great variation in bill structure and feeding habits: provided Darwin with evidence to support his theory of evolution
  • data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
  • de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
  • de morgan's laws — (in formal logic and set theory) the principles that conjunction and disjunction, or union and intersection, are dual. Thus the negation of P & Q is equivalent to not-P or not-Q

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